Sentence examples for rather than veritable from inspiring English sources

The book is billed as a novel, but this is only because it is speculative rather than veritable; it is more properly classified a vie romancée, a bio enhanced with the loosey-goosey methods of fiction.

Rather than rallying to face that veritable war machine, Republicans turned on each other.

It is rather a veritable advantage for them than a considerable sacrifice.

Because he stays in a hostel rather than a hotel, is the veritas more veritable?

Because she is so primitive and yet has human-like features a cat-sized creature, lemur-like, with opposable thumbs and fingernails (rather than claws)–she has been celebrated as the veritable Platonic form of the "missing link" (between mere mammals and us humans).

Chinese-language travel books, such as Wu Sumei's Wandering Like The Hippies, are a veritable checklist for young Chinese, who – limited by visa durations rather than budgets – scramble to visit as many nations as possible.

Rather than lazily dazzling the reader, this serious though seductively disguised volume is underpinned by a veritable academy of Modernismo scholars whose thoughtful essays emphasize that Gaudí was but part of a dense network of some of the most imaginative architects ever crowded together in one small but towering city.

Freedom House mentioned that the Khawalid brothers "espouse a decidedly anti-Shiite agenda, conceiving of the community as a veritable fifth column to be dealt with in the framework of security, rather than through political bargaining".

Rather than exceptions, we'd be better off understanding them as harbingers of our future--the veritable canaries in the mine whose warnings should be heeded.

Rather than exposing victims to a bunch of crappy ads, the viral Facebook post baited users into a veritable Choose Your Own Adventure story of malware and scams.

Lane's fascinating cultural history of the "canal craze" around the red planet ("a veritable sensation") argues that the disagreements over whether Mars was inhabited were still largely scientific disagreements – rather than, as they have previously been portrayed, science on the one hand and wanton fantasy on the other.